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Sam Erenberg: Geography of the Imagination
"Like the moon on the water, in a way. When you confront a Zen master, what you're really seeing are not his limitations but yours." -- Pico Iyer There are forms of meditation rooted in the real world,...
View ArticleWangechi Mutu on the ImageBlog
Wangechi Mutu, A Funny Kind of Scent, 2012. Mixed media and collage on linoleum, 24 x 30 inches. Image courtesy of the Artist and Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer.
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Kako Ueda
"Faces," 34 X 36 in., hand-cut black archival paper, 2013, courtesy of the artist and George Adams Gallery, NY. Liz Insogna: "Faces," one of your cut paper works, is impressed upon my mind the way an...
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MCLA Walking Tour of Historic Downtown Los Angeles
The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles offers informative and educational mural tours all over the city including, the Arts District, Venice and Santa Monica, Estrada Courts in Boyle Heights, and the...
View ArticleThe Antidote for Valentine's Day: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman
If you're single, you may be feeling choked by all of the Valentine's Day patter going around. Valentine's Day has been trending on Twitter for at least a week now. Even if you're happily in a...
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Give 'Em Sell! - Photographer Erik Schubert and His Best Pitch
One of the first books that I had read when I was working in the business world was Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence People. My copy is heavily dog-eared, underlined and dusty. I can...
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Notes From the Road: Phoenix
In Phoenix, AZ, Chad and I visited artist Monica Aissa Martinez. Her large, richly detailed and colorful paintings begin with the anatomical structure of the human body, but manage to fold in the...
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When Life Hands You Drag Queens
The conventional wisdom is well established and widely understood: When life hands you lemons, make lemonade. But what happens when life hands a successful, mature, professional man a lovely new frock?...
View ArticleSam I Am
SAM I AM (for Michael Sam) 24 years and 255 pounds, 6 feet 4 with heart-shaped triceps, he is the Jackie Robinson of our time, elegant, determined to sack, tackling truth with grace. More afraid of not...
View ArticleThe Monuments Man and One Recovered Painting in San Francisco
Now this is kind of cool. Just as George Clooney's new film The Monuments Men is opening, San Francisco's Legion of Honor museum has begun exhibiting one of the paintings recovered by that group of...
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Our Snow Day Turned Into a Work of Art
Wednesday morning my newsfeed was flooded with cell phone snap shots of a weather phenomenon known as a sun dog. They occur in freezing temperatures when ice crystals cause a refraction of light. And...
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Photography in Long Beach
Two Long Beach photography shows - Ellen Butler's "Zen and Now: Photographs in the Present Moment" at Utopia Restaurant and John Montich's "Multiple Sightings" at Stone Rose Gallery - lift viewers out...
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Art Wynwood Launches Third Edition, Brings Cash, Cans and Candy From Vienna
Galleries at Art Wynwood 2013 (Photo provided) Street art, the crux of the international underground art movement, now has a place in the commercial market of the mainstream art world. According to...
View Article'Broad City' Is The Best New Show You're Not Watching
Not all TV shows about white girls in Brooklyn are created equal. Some land on HBO and inspire thousands of words worth of think-pieces. Others, instead, nuzzle into a Wednesday night time slot on...
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On the Town: k.d. lang Debuts in After Midnight on Broadway
k.d. lang in 'After Midnight'. (Photo by Matthew Murphy) It was a suit and tie kind of night -- and not just for the soulful k.d. lang who made her Broadway debut as the new guest star in After...
View ArticlePicasso's Schmatte
Picasso's Schmatte I've probably been to the Four Seasons in New York half a dozen times in my life, and have always associated the iconic Midtown Manhattan restaurant -- renowned for its power lunches...
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For Warren Rosser, the space between Is Easily Maneuvered
While some works invite you to step up and take a closer look, the thrill of the space between, Warren Rosser's current exhibition at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art in Kansas City, is standing back and...
View ArticleChallenges for Women in the Arts: Reflections on the MAKERS Conference
Just a few years ago, the mind-numbing rhetoric of "post-feminism" was still in wide circulation, as though the original aspirations of the women's movement -- women's full participation in society and...
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Emotions, Memories and Reflections
...The subject of a picture is always more important than the picture. —Diane Arbus. New York: Don Arbus and the Estate of Diane Arbus and Aperture Foundation, Inc., 1972, p. 15 War was something...
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On the Future of Wagnerism: Do New Revelations About Hitler's Taste in Art...
Wagner 201 On the Future of Wagnerism Do New Revelations of Hitler's Taste in Art Cast New Light on Wagner Appreciation? Widely regarded as one of history's greatest composers and artists, Richard...
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